Friday, August 11, 2017

The actress Terele Pávez has died in Madrid at the
age of 78, said Aisge, the entity that manages the intellectual property of the
actors in Spain.Pávez
(Bilbao, 1939), of an extensive career in
theater, film and television, has died in the hospital of La Paz, Madrid,
as a result of a stroke.Teresa Marta Ruiz Penella,
habitual in papers of temperamental woman, a fact favored by his torn voice,
belonged to a family of artists.Granddaughter and
great-granddaughter of the composers Manuel Penella Moreno and Manuel Penella
Raga, was sister of the also actresses Enma Penella and Elisa Montés, and aunt
of Emma Ozores.

Pávez won a Goya Award in 2014 as a
supporting actress in the film The Witches of Zugarramurdi, by Álex de la Iglesia.Just
his last film role was in another De la Iglesia movie, El bar , premiered this year.His
artistic surname came from the second of his maternal grandmother, Emma Silva
Pavez, of Chilean origin, and used to differentiate himself from his sisters.

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Kathleen Marie Shea – age 71. Born Sept 7, 1945 in Columbus, Ohio.
Died August 4 after a hard-fought battle with a glioblastoma brain tumor.
Kathleen is survived by her Brother Frank (Cathy) Shea, Brother Steve (Kelley)
Shea, Nieces Audrey and Avery Shea and many close friends and cousins. Kathy
attended Bishop Watterson High School
and The Ohio State University where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.
After college, Kathy spent 30+ years in Hollywood
where she worked on many remarkably well-known and successful movies and
television shows. After each movie, her list of life-long, cherished friends
grew and grew. Kathleen is preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Miriam
Shea, and her niece, Ainsley Marie Shea. The family would like to thank her
best friends Janet Ferro and Joe/Joan Foglia, her Theta and Watterson friends,
and the wonderful caregivers at Sunrise on the Scioto who supported her during her illness. There will
be a Requiem High Mass, presided by her dear cousin, Fr. Kevin Lutz at St.
Leo's Church, 221 Hanford St.
in German Village at 10:00AM on Tuesday, August
8th. Arrangements by EGAN-RYAN FUNERAL HOME, 403 E. BROAD ST.

Glen Campbell, the indelible voice behind 21 Top 40 hits
including "Rhinestone Cowboy," "Wichita Lineman" and
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix," died Tuesday. He was 81. A rep for
Universal Music Group, Campbell's record label, confirmed the singer's death to
Rolling Stone. During a career that spanned six decades, Campbell sold over 45
million records. In 1968, one of his biggest years, he outsold the Beatles.

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"It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce
the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and legendary singer
and guitarist, Glen Travis Campbell, at the age of 81, following his long and
courageous battle with Alzheimer's disease," the singer's family said in a
statement.

"Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song,
meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has
potential," he once said. "I have been able to hear some of the hits
that way, but I can also 'feel' one."

Campbell was born in 1936 in Billstown, Arkansas, the
seventh son in a sharecropping family of 12 kids. "We used to watch TV by
candlelight," Campbell told Rolling Stone in 2011.

In his youth, Campbell started playing guitar and became
obsessed with jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. He dropped out of school when he
was 14 and moved to Wyoming with an uncle who was a musician, playing gigs
together at rural bars. He soon moved to Los Angeles and by 1962 had solidified
a spot in the Wrecking Crew, a group of session pros. In 1963 alone he appeared
on 586 cuts, and countless more throughout the decade, including the Byrds'
"Mr. Tambourine Man," Elvis Presley's "Viva Las Vegas,” Merle
Haggard's "Mama Tried" and the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost
That Lovin' Feeling."

"I’d have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd
make in a week in L.A.," he said. "I learned it was crucial to play
right on the edge of the beat ... It makes you drive the song more. You're
ahead of the beat, but you're not." Fellow Wrecking Crew member Leon
Russell called Campbell "the best guitar player I'd heard before or since.
Occasionally we'd play with 50 or 60-piece orchestras. His deal was he didn't
read [music], so they would play it one time for him, and he had it."

In late 1964, Brian Wilson had a nervous breakdown on
tour with the Beach Boys, and the band called on Campbell to replace him on
bass and high harmonies. "I took Brian’s place and that was just ... I was
in heaven then – hog heaven!" Campbell remarked.

"He fit right in," said Wilson. "His main
forte is he's a great guitar player, but he's even a better singer than all the
rest. He could sing higher than I could!" Wilson even wrote an early song,
"I Guess I'm Dumb," for Campbell. His first hit was a cover of Buffy
Sainte-Marie's antiwar song "Universal Soldier." But Campbell's own
political views tended to be conservative. "The people who are advocating
burning draft cards should be hung," he said in 1965.

Campbell had his first major hit in 1967, with "By
the Time I Get to Phoenix," written by Jimmy Webb, an L.A. kid with a
knack for intricate ballads. "Glen's vocal power and technique was the
perfect vehicle for these, in a way, very sentimental and romantic songs. And I
think that you know we made some records that were very nearly perfect.
'Wichita Lineman' is a very near perfect pop record," Webb said. "I
think in the process that Glen was a prime mover in the whole creation of the
country crossover phenomenon that made the careers of Kenny Rogers and some
other... many other artists possible."

The tune kicked off a working relationship that included
the haunting Vietnam War ballad "Galveston," the tender "Gentle
on My Mind" and "Wichita Lineman," Campbell's first Top 10 hit. With
swelling orchestral arrangements and slick production, the songs weren't
exactly considered hip in the Sixties. "They felt packaged for a
middle-of-the-road, older crowd," said Tom Petty. "At first, you go,
'Oh, I don't know about that.' But it was such pure, good stuff that you had to
put off your prejudices and learn to love it. It taught me not to have those
prejudices." In 1967, Campbell won Grammys in both the country and pop
categories.

In the summer of 1968, Campbell guest hosted the Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour. The successful appearance led to his own variety show,
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, which he hosted from 1969 until 1972. Artists
like Ray Charles, Johnny Cash and Linda Ronstadt performed on the show, which
also gave a national platform to rising country stars like Willie Nelson.
"He exposed us to a big part of the world that would have never had the
chance to see us," said Nelson. "He's always been a big help to
me."

Campbell's boyish charisma led John Wayne to cast him in
a co-starring role in 1969's True Grit. He later said that his acting was so
amateurish that he "gave John Wayne that push to win the Academy
Award." But the good times didn't last: His show was canceled; his first
feature film, 1970's Norwood, flopped; and the hits dried up for a few years.
Then, Campbell scored a smash with 1975's "Rhinestone Cowboy." It
began a comeback that included hits "Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in
L.A.") and "Southern Nights." The hits slowed down again in the
Eighties; in the Nineties he opened up the Glen Campbell Goodtime Theatre in
Branson, Missouri.

Campbell was married four times, and has five sons and
three daughters. Despite his career successes, he struggled with alcoholism and
cocaine addiction. In the early Eighties, he had a tempestuous, high-profile
relationship with country singer Tanya Tucker, who was 22 years his junior. In
1981 he became a born-again Christian and in 1982 he married Kimberly Woollen,
a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, who helped Campbell clean up his life.

In 2003, he was arrested for hit-and-run, an incident
that ended with him allegedly kneeing a police officer in the thigh right
before he was released. Campbell pleaded guilty to extreme drunken driving and
leaving the scene of an accident, and spent 10 days in jail.

In 2011, Campbell, who was 75, revealed that he was diagnosed
with Alzheimer's disease. In June of that year, he announced he was retiring
from music due to the disease. He released his final album of original music
Ghost on the Canvas (with guests Billy Corgan, Paul Westerberg and Jakob Dylan)
and embarked on a farewell tour with three of his children backing him.

"I think this has been really good for him,"
said his daughter Ashley. "Before the announcement, people were thinking,
'He's drunk. He's using again.' Now it's more of a supportive thing as opposed to
an angry, critical thing."

In 2014, I’ll Be Me, a film about Campbell’s farewell
tour and struggles with Alzheimer’s was released. He spent his final years in
an assisted living facility. His friends and children would often spend days
with him playing him his old songs. "Music utilizes all of the brain, not
just one little section of it," Kim noted. "Everything's firing all
at once. It's really stimulating and probably helped him plateau and not
progress as quickly as he might have. I could tell from his spirits that it was
good for him. It made him really happy. It was good for the whole family to
continue touring and to just keep living our lives. And we hope it encourages
other people to do the same."

Earlier this year, Campbell released Adiós, his final
studio album, a collection of mainly cover songs by Bob Dylan, Harry Nilsson
and others, recorded after his Goodbye Tour. "Almost every time he sat
down with a guitar, these were his go-to songs," daughter Ashley Campbell
told Rolling Stone Country. "They were very much engrained in his memory –
like, so far back that they were one of the last things he started
losing."

Sunday, August 6, 2017

Peter Canon was born on April 25, 1933 in New York City, New York,
USA as Peter
Cannon. He was an actor, known for Tom Horn (1980), The Hindenburg (1975) and Lifeguard
(1976). He died on July 28, 2017 in Los
Angeles, California, USA.

Saturday, August 5, 2017

Ty Hardin, who roamed the West searching for adventure in
the television series “Bronco” in the late 1950s and early ’60s, died on
Thursday in Huntington Beach, Calif. He was 87.

His wife, Caroline, confirmed his death, but said the
cause had not been determined.

In a television landscape crowded with gunslingers like
Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, Lucas McCain (the Rifleman) and Bret Maverick, Mr. Hardin
carved a niche playing Bronco Layne, a soft-spoken loner slow to anger but
quick on the draw and skilled in the saddle.

“There ain’t a horse that he can’t handle, that’s how he
got his name,” a line in the show’s theme song went.

First introduced on the series “Cheyenne” in 1958,
Bronco, formerly a captain in the Confederate Army, held various jobs as he
traveled — Army scout, deputy sheriff, wagon-train master, undercover
post-office agent and miner among them — and encountered colorful historical
characters along the way, notably Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok and Jesse
James (played by James Coburn).

“Ty Hardin, the hero, is a handsome, callow cowhand,” The
New York Times wrote when the show had its premiere, “not as frivolous as Bret
Maverick but, then again, not as omnipotent as Marshal Dillon nor as righteous
as Wyatt Earp.”

Mr. Hardin was born Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr. on Jan.
1, 1930, in Manhattan. His parents divorced when he was 2, and his mother, the
former Gwendolyn Burnett, took him and his brother to live in Houston and then
at her mother’s farm outside Austin, Tex. His grandmother gave him the nickname
Ty.

After graduating from Lamar High School in Houston he
attended Blinn Junior College in Brenham, Tex., on a football scholarship and
studied for a semester at the Dallas Bible Institute.

He enlisted in the Army and, after attending officer
candidate school, underwent flight training and flew light aircraft while
stationed in West Germany during the Korean War. After leaving the Army, he
studied electrical engineering at Texas A&M, where he played tight end for
Bear Bryant. A few weeks before graduation, Mr. Hardin left college to work as
an acoustical research engineer at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, Calif.

While shopping for a Halloween costume, he was spotted by
a talent scout for Paramount Pictures, who arranged a screen test that led to a
seven-year contract and the films “The Space Children” and “I Married a Monster
From Outer Space.”

Hoping for a role in the Warner Bros. film “Rio Bravo,”
he met with John Wayne, only to find that the part he wanted had been given to
Ricky Nelson. Wayne introduced him to Howard Hawks, the film’s producer and
director, and to William T. Orr, head of the studio’s television division.
Warner bought his contract, assigned him the last name Hardin, and inserted him
into its series “Cheyenne” when the show’s star, Clint Walker, walked off the set
in a contract dispute.

As Bronco Layne, Mr. Hardin proved so popular with
viewers that when Walker returned to “Cheyenne” in 1959, the studio created
“Bronco” as a spinoff, which ABC ran in rotation with “Cheyenne” and
“Sugarfoot” in the same time slot.

After “Bronco” had run its course, Mr. Hardin appeared in
several Warner films, including “Merrill’s Marauders,” directed by Sam Fuller;
“The Chapman Report”; “PT 109”; and the Troy Donahue vehicle “Palm Springs
Weekend.”

His career on the wane, he tried his luck in Europe. He
played a tightrope walker in a circus owned by Joan Crawford in the 1967
British horror film “Berserk!” and an action hero in the Italian thriller
“Death on the Run.” He also appeared in several spaghetti westerns and the
Australian adventure series “Riptide.”

He experienced the double misfortune of turning down the
lead role in “A Fistful of Dollars,” the film that rejuvenated Clint Eastwood’s
career, and, because of filming commitments in Spain, the role of Batman in the
1960s television series.

After returning to the United States in the late 1970s,
Mr. Hardin came into conflict with the I.R.S. over nonpayment of taxes.

While living in Prescott, Ariz., he formed an anti-tax,
anti-government protest group that evolved into the Arizona Patriots militia
movement, which was accused in 1986 of planning to blow up an I.R.S. complex in
Utah. In a raid on a Patriots camp, federal agents confiscated weapons and
publications from Aryan Nation groups. The group has since disbanded.

Mr. Hardin’s first seven marriages ended in divorce. He
lived in Huntington Beach. Besides his wife, the former Caroline Pampu,
survivors include his sons Bobby Smith, Jeff and John Hardin, and Tyrin
Hungerford; his daughters Mary Chriss Smith and Stefanie Hardin Leuty; and many
grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Died at Tavernelle Bruno Canfora, wrote for Mina, Rita
Pavone and the Kessler

The famous
orchestra director was protagonist in numerous Italian TV series from the 60's
onwards, has been living in Umbria for a long time and was 92 years old

Bruno Canfora, the famous orchestra conductor, died
yesterday at 92, in his Tavernelle home where he lived for a long time with his
family.Milanese, Canfora marked a piece
of the history of Italian TV, in particular the television variety from the
60's onwards, until 1995, his last appearance in the TV program Papaveri and
Papere.

Divided to Rai, for which he has been conductor of
numerous historical programs such as Studio Uno, Senza rete, Sabato Sera ,
Premio Italia and various editions of Canzonissima , as well as the Sanremo
Festival, where he also had written many songs for the contest.And he was also the orchestra conductor of
the last edition of the Eurovision Song Contest hosted in Italy, the one in
Rome 1991, hosted in Cinecittà.

Among the songs written by him, some are left in the
story: Da-da-un-pa and La notte è piccola by the Kessler twins, Fortissimo and Il
ballo del Mattone by Rita Pavone, Sono come tu mi vuoi, Zum Zum Zum and Mi sei
scoppiato dentro al cuore by Mina.His
collaboration with Garinei and Giovannini was also important, for which he
wrote the music of many musical comedies.The family celebrated the funeral in private, with a religious ceremony
at the cemetery.

Friday, August 4, 2017

Daniel Licht, composer for TV’s “Dexter,” died of cancer
late Wednesday. He was 60.

Licht scored all eight seasons of “Dexter,” the Showtime
serial-killer drama, from 2006 to 2013. Although he also wrote music for movies
and other TV projects, it was his quirky music for “Dexter” – employing unusual
sounds using bones, knives, scissors, duct tape, wine glasses, didgeridoo,
Irish harp and other instruments – that became his best-known work.

Seven albums of “Dexter” music, all featuring his scores,
were released. Licht himself played many of the percussion instruments in a
10-minute orchestral suite of “Dexter” music performed live at Poland’s Krakow
Film Music Festival in 2015.

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Said “Dexter” executive producer Clyde Phillips: “Dan was
an incredibly talented musician and composer, but most of all, he was a dear
friend. His passing leaves all of us a bit quieter, a bit sadder, and without
the gift of his music and his love.”

Many of Licht’s scores were in the horror genre,
including two installments in the “Children of the Corn” series, two
“Amityville” movies, Clive Barker’s “Hellraiser: Bloodline” and the Stephen
King thriller “Thinner,” all in the 1990s. But he also scored NBC’s 1998
adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” Showtime’s 2000 Jimi Hendrix
biopic “Hendrix,” and Hallmark’s 2004 adventure miniseries “King Solomon’s
Mines.”

He also scored a number of indie and festival favorites
including Alex Cox’s “The Winner,” Gregg Araki’s “Splendor” and Xavier Koller’s
“Cowboy Up.

Licht composed music for a number of other TV series
including Fox’s “Oliver Beene” and “Kitchen Confidential”; ABC’s “Jake in
Progress,” “Cashmere Mafia,” “Body of Proof”; NBC’s “Deception’; Sundance’s
“The Red Road”; and Freeform’s “Guilt.” His TV-movie “Tiny House of Terror”
recently debuted on Lifetime.

He had also branched out into the videogame arena,
scoring two in the “Silent Hill” PlayStation series (“Downpour” and “Book of
Memories”) and the first two games in the “Dishonored” series.

He won six BMI TV music awards, all for “Dexter” and
“Body of Proof.”

Licht was born in Detroit, played clarinet and guitar as
a youth, and graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts, studying jazz,
world music and composition. He moved to New York City, where he played jazz
with Don Cherry and David Amram and began working in music for commercials.

He also traveled to the Far East, studying gamelan music
on the islands of Java and Bali. At the urging of his friend and college
classmate Christopher Young, he moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s, initially
programming and performing on synthesizers for Young’s film scores and
eventually launching his own career as a film composer.

He is survived by his wife Hilary Kimblin Licht; a son,
Kian; his mother, two brothers, a sister and several nieces and nephews. A
memorial service is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Aug. 18 at Theatricum Botanicum in
Topanga, Calif. The family has requested that donations in his name be made to
Hampshire College or the National Cancer Institute.

About Me

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946 I have a BA degree in American History from Cal St. Northridge. I've been researching the American West and western films since the early 1980s and visiting filming sites in Spain and the U.S.A. Elected a member of the Spaghetti Western Hall of Fame 2010.